Robert Nemiroff and Lorraine Hansberry

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and—I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations.

Robert Nemiroff and Lorraine Hansberry, on steps of building at Camp Unity, 1953 or 1954. Photographer unknown. Camp Unity was a left-wing interracial summer camp for adults in upstate Wingdale, New York. In 1954, Hansberry was the Lawn Program Director and invited speakers such as W.E.B. Du Bois and his wife, Shirley Graham Du Bois to visit. Phil Rose, who would later produce A Raisin in the Sun, was also on staff there.